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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

This book delves into the significance of archives and the psychological aspects of collecting and preserving historical records. It employs Sigmund Freud's theories to examine the motivations behind the accumulation of knowledge and the cultural implications of archiving practices. more

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Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 9, 2004) was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. His deconstructive philosophy had a profound impact on postmodernism, cultural studies, and literary theory. more

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“Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems therefore to take place outside it. That is why those who are in ideology believe themselves by definition outside ideology: one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology: ideology never says, 'I am ideological.'”

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“The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history or its object, grasp its own origins within itself or constitute itself as a closed world, exhaustively defined by internal rules. Materialism refers every science and every activity to the reality they depend on, even if this dependence is masked by a great many abstract mediations: mathematics as well as logic, aesthetics as well as ethics and politics.”

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